Kaikoura Museum & Archives

Kaikoura Historical Society
14 Ludstone Road
Kaikoura 8280

Access

  • Monday to Friday: 12.30pm to 4.30pm
  • Weekends and Public holidays: 2.00pm - 4.00pm
  • Closed: Good Friday and Christmas Day

Contacts

Services

  • Family research. Staff can provide assistance depending on other commitments. There is a charge for research.

Charges

  • $3 admission (adult) $0.50c admission (child)
  • Photocopying charges
  • Research charges

Resources

  • History of Kaikoura District and over 12,000 photographs
  • Family and business files; Sherrard files, over 20,000 names indexed
  • Year 2000 Early Settlers Register
  • Minute books

Births, Deaths and Marriages

  • Births 1862-1877; Catholic Parish burials 1865-2000; some marriage certificates; obituaries and death notices.

Cemetery records

  • Headstone transcriptions from Kaikoura Public Cemetery; burial records

Education

  • Some Kaikoura school records

Electoral rolls, censuses, directories

  • Kaikoura electoral roll names 1893

Newspapers

  • Kaikoura Star on microfilm.

Passenger Lists

  • Wharfage books containing names of many Kaikoura early settlers

A family sitting in front of a historic car.
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